I was going to include these links in the History, but it made the message too large. for other links submitted on the History of Ashfield see also- MAFRANKL-L ARCHIVE [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Old Families and Early School Districts part 1 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048017950 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Old Families and Early School Districts part 2 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048017972 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Old Families and Early School Districts part 3 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048017992 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Old Families and Early School Districts part 4 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048018005 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Cemeteries - part 1 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048121869 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield Cemeteries - part 2 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1048121890 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Population part 1 of 2 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1049099538 [MAFRANKL] Ashfield - Populaton part 2 of 2 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MAFRANKL/2003-03/1049099708 FRANKLIN COUNTY MESSAGE BOARD (you may need to copy & paste URL) The Franklin County Message Board has 79 matches for Ashfield - put Ashfield in the search box and click on "Franklin Board" History of Ashfield by Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1855 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northa m.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=767.4 History of Ashfield by Frederick G. Howes, 1910, selected chapters (this link includes all of the above links in one message) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northa m.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=767 My connections to Ashfield are Gad ELMER and Levi STEELE families. Both are listed on the Ashfield List of Voters in 1798. Levi is also on the 1793 list. Info on Gad Elmer http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northa m.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=602 John Steele, Franklin Co., MA (son of Levi) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northa m.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=47.94